With combined turnover of £2.5bn, social enterprises trade sustainably but mean business.
There was wry amusement among watchers at the first really big anti-globalisation confrontations over a large banners, carried rather hesitantly, which read: "Smash capitalism and replace it with ... something nicer."
Fuzzy and warm? Perhaps, but the fact is that capitalism has been getting it in the neck ever since and it is no longer good enough for the world's red-in-tooth-and-claw merchant adventurers to say, like Millwall fans, that "nobody likes us and we don't care".
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